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Sudan Christian Couple Persecuted

jacob — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 22:30:12 +0000

In Khartoum Sudan, a Christian couple with the newborn said they have come under attack for converting from Islam to Christianity. Omar Hassan and Amouna Ahamdi, both 27, said they fled Nyala, 75 miles southwest of El-Fashir, for Khartoum in June 2010, but knife-wielding, masked assailants on May 4 attacked the couple after relatives learned that they had converted from Islam to Christianity. The knife pierced the palm of Ahamdi, who said her brother also had stabbed her three times in the stomach nine months ago seriously injuring her spleen after she told him she had become a Christian. Hassan told Compass that he and his wife were renting a house from her uncle in Khartoum, but he ordered them to leave after learning they had left Islam. Being jobless and no where to go Hassan and Ahamdi depend on friends to provide them occasional food, she said. They sometimes go without eating for two days. Full Story

Christian Woman in Darfur, Sudan Arrested for Evangelizing

thomas — Mon, 30 May 2011 04:36:41 +0000

KHARTOUM, Sudan, May 24 (CDN) — Sudanese National Security Intelligence and Security Service agents have arrested a Christian woman in a Darfur camp for displaced people, accusing her of converting Muslims to Christianity, said sources who fear she is being tortured.

Abdalla has yet to be officially charged, but authorities have accused her of possessing and distributing Bibles to others in the camp, including children. Sources said she could also be tried for apostasy, which carries the death sentence in Sudan.

Abdalla has been transferred to an unknown location in Khartoum, sources said, adding that they fear she could be tortured as she was detained and tortured for six days in 2009. Intelligence agents, they said, have been monitoring her movements for some time.

The arrest comes as northern Christians become more vulnerable to official and societal pressure with South Sudan set to split from the predominantly Muslim north on July 9.

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Sudanese Christian Woman Pursued

jacob — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:42:02 +0000

Howida Ali a Sudanese woman who fled to Egypt after converting from Islam to Christianity is living in secluded isolation as her angry family members try to track her down. Howida Ali’s Muslim brother and her ex-husband began searching for her in Cairo earlier this year after a relative there reported her whereabouts to them. “I’m afraid of my brother finding us,” said the 38-year-old Ali, who has moved to another area. “Their aim is to take us back to Sudan, and there they will force us to return to the Islamic faith or sentence us to death according to Islamic law.” Ali said she divorced her husband, Esam El deen Ali, because of his drug addiction in 2001, before she converted to Christianity. She was living with her parents in Khartoum when she began seeing visions of Christ. She sought out a Christian friend from southern Sudan, who told her about Jesus Christ and prayed with her. Fearing that relatives might discover she was a Christian, in 2007 she escaped with her then-8-year-old son.

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